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[TD]

Doesn't appear that good imo....

Noticed some strangeness on my notebook.....and got defender to do a full scan....it found 3 viruses! 

So, why didn't it stop them to start with  and why only a full scan found them that took about 5 hours   

Picking up new notebook tomorrow....not because of the viruses found but this 5 year old notebook has had it......it runs too slow for me on win10....on/off button is knackered....crashes most times coming out of hibernate....batt on the motherboard is fubared....it forgets date/time every reboot 

[TD]

Not gonna say what notebook ive bought....as I will probably get slated for it....
£150 for a Lenovo...damn   

[zirk]

Download a free version of Malwarebytes, keep it updated and run a full scan weekly / monthly, don't let it run full time in the background just use it when needed. 

[TheBoy]

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

[TD]

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

Must say impressed so far, Lenovo ideapad 100s, for £150 its worth it imo, its very thin, very light, a lot quicker than my 5 year old notepad, 8hr battery,  but with only 32gb storage, before win10 install, its not going to good for much apart from surfing the net and email etc ... but thats fine for me .... ive got a i5 desktop for anything thats requires power and disk space 

[TheBoy]

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

Must say impressed so far, Lenovo ideapad 100s, for £150 its worth it imo, its very thin, very light, a lot quicker than my 5 year old notepad, 8hr battery,  but with only 32gb storage, before win10 install, its not going to good for much apart from surfing the net and email etc ... but thats fine for me .... ive got a i5 desktop for anything thats requires power and disk space 

Just keep an eye on running processes

SSDs are cheap now, 240Gb is only £50 delivered, if you find it is too tight on space

[TD]

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

Must say impressed so far, Lenovo ideapad 100s, for £150 its worth it imo, its very thin, very light, a lot quicker than my 5 year old notepad, 8hr battery,  but with only 32gb storage, before win10 install, its not going to good for much apart from surfing the net and email etc ... but thats fine for me .... ive got a i5 desktop for anything thats requires power and disk space 

Just keep an eye on running processes

SSDs are cheap now, 240Gb is only £50 delivered, if you find it is too tight on space

Will do  , tho im not totally sure what to look out for win10 

Ive decided im not installing Office, as i only used Outlook, with occassional letter writing....so notepad or whatever can do that and outlook.com can do the email  So the 14Gb I have free atm, is fine by me 

[TheBoy]

TD, just google "Lenovo malware bios" should give you enough hints to get started.  They have been getting a real slating in the channel press over it.

[TD]

TD, just google "Lenovo malware bios" should give you enough hints to get started.  They have been getting a real slating in the channel press over it.

Thankyou....Googled it and then checked, theres no LSE service running and looked in the system32 dir.....the files it mentions aren't there either 

[Rods2]

In other words the Chinese government can have full control of your PC. They didn't yesterday, haven't so far today, but who knows about tomorrow and so on.......

Government sponsored hacking by Chinese and especially the Russian government along with other cyber nasties are major global issues.